HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): As many as 137 prisoners, including four women, were released from prison in western Herat province in compliance with a presidential decree on Sunday.
A statement from the Herat prisons department to Pajhwok Afghan News said the former inmates had been convicted of various crimes and their release happened following a presidential decree issued on the occasion of Eid Miladun Nabi.
It added of the prisoners, around 100 had been convicted of various crimes in Iran before they were recently extradited to Herat province . . .
